On April 12, 2007 a joint meeting of the Interagency Commission on combating legalization of the proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism and the Advisory Board under the Interagency Commission was held. The main issues that were discussed during the meeting related to the preparation of the Russian Federation to the forthcoming third Round mutual evaluation of the compliance of the Russian Federation with the FATF 40+9 Recommendations.
The Head of Rosfinmonitoring and the Chairman of the Interagency Commission, Mr.Zubkov, has advised the participants of the dates of the FATF Mission visit (from 24th to 28th of September and from 12th to 23d of November, 2007), during which Moscow, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Vladivostok (or Khabarovsk), Irkutsk and Nizhniy Novgorod are to be visited. The mutual evaluation report will be discussed at the FATF Plenary meeting in June, 2008 in London.
The preparation to this important event is conducted in line with the Plan, worked out with the direct assistance of the members of the Interagency Commission and the Advisory Board. In the view of the fulfilment of the Plan a special working group led by the Head of Rosfinmonitoring and the experts subgroup for the preparation of materials for the FATF Secretariat have been created. The similar groups are to be created in the Federal Districts of the Russian Federation under the authorized representatives of the President of the Russian Federation as well as under the Interregional Departments of Rosfinmonitoring supervision. In case questions arise and for the coordination of activities the meetings of the representatives of the federal and regional law enforcement and judicial bodies and supervisors could be held in the Presidential Executive Office, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and Rosfinmonitoring.
The participants discussed the organizational issues related to the preparation to the FATF third Round of evaluation and the current state of the legislative activity in the AML/CFT sphere.
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